HMS Working Group on Clinical Faculty Roles, Responsibilities, and Commitments
April 2, 2025
Charge to the Working Group
Academic health centers nationwide must adapt to the complex, dynamic, and challenging health care delivery environment to ensure their financial sustainability and delivery on their clinical mission. Across the HMS teaching affiliates, reorganization into health systems, the expansion and decentralization of service delivery, and associated demands on clinical capacity are, in some instances, presenting novel challenges for clinical faculty who wish to develop and sustain successful careers in academic medicine.
As the roles and responsibilities of HMS clinical faculty are reshaped in this context, HMS is convening the Working Group on Clinical Faculty Roles, Responsibilities, and Commitments with the goal of identifying challenges to the successful engagement of faculty with the academic mission and evaluating potential options for institutional actions that can best support and optimize HMS clinical faculty experience, professional fulfillment, and academic opportunities.
The Working Group’s charge is to advise the Dean on opportunities to improve HMS clinical faculty experience and to recommend approaches that will ensure that faculty continue to have the academic milieu, mentorship, resources for professional development, and institutional support and commitments they need to advance their careers in academic medicine, meet teaching and other expectations associated with their hospital roles and faculty appointments, and contribute to the academic excellence and mission of the HMS community.